Orpington Video and Film Makers
Amateur Film Makers since 1958 Based in Orpington, Kent, UK
Latest club news and updates
The next club meeting on Tuesday April 1st is no joke as we hold the annual OVFM AGM including Member’s Voices. In a slight change, the meeting will take place at All Saints Church in Bark Hart Road, Orpington (where we have held previous meetings including the 2011 Oscars). If you need a reminder …
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Thanks to our press officer Mike Shaw, the world (well in Orpington at least) has heard the good news about the success of our Spring Show: “Orpington Video & Film Makers Spring Show – held at the Methodist Hall Orpington on Friday 21st March – attracted close on 200 people – one of their largest crowds …
“Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends” A new year means a new start for the annual Top Ten competition aka the “Barbara Darby Hands Off That’s Mine” award! Once again the names of all OVFM club members have been put into the hat belonging to our competitions organiser Brenda Wheatley and …
It’s Spring 2014 and once again it is time for us to restore the faith in our less confident filmmakers with the annual coaching evening sessions. As ever Ian “Hole In One” Menage has been hard at work constructing another programme for all of us to benefit from with helpful advice and masterclasses from the …
THE RESULTS Hello and welcome to the annual OVFM Oscars Results report. The 2014 OVFM Oscars took place in front of a bored audience at the Barnard Room, St Augustine’s Church on a somewhat chilly night but that didn’t stop them dressing up in their best glad rags for the events. Actually it did stop …
“They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway” Well they have nothing compared to the luminescence of the OVFM Oscars, especially those Yanks who are trying to steal our thunder by hosting their thrupenny bit knockoff version two days before ours! The biggest event in the OVFM calendar arrives on March 4th where the …
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GREEN! Hello again and here we are with another exciting club project for you to participate in. The subject this time is “Green”. Now what does that mean you ask? Well, it could mean a number of things: something incorporating the colour perhaps; a tribute to your favourite fruit or vegetable; a tour around your …
with Spring Park Sharing can be a good thing. A rewarding thing. it can help us out of a sticky situation by helping carry the load of a problem or it can lead to the widening of the horizons. If we don’t share things like information and knowledge then we as people and a society …
OVFM Spring Show 2014 We’ve reached that time of year again when OVFM invites our members, their families and guests from outside the club to join us in celebrating the days getting brighter, the weather is getting warmer and the trees and plants in bloom once again. As ever we will be to …
“We’re all going on a summer holiday…” Well not really but we are hoping to see where some of our club members went on theirs as its time for our annual Holiday Films night! Since we have a number of intrepid explorers among our numbers and if past years are any indication, we can be …